Law of Non-Contradiction

“Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were marveling, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.” Acts 4:13

This applies everywhere...over the water cooler at work, or even in presidential politics. When asked recently in a private meeting with religious leaders whether Jesus was the only way to salvation, Barack Obama reportedly said, “Jesus is the only way for me. I’m not in a position to judge other people.” Was he merely trying not to offend non-Christians? Or could his answer reflect this growing relativism, even among Christians?

The problem is that all religions make mutually exclusive truth claims. Either Jesus is, as He Himself said, “the only way to the Father,” or He is not. What Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus say about the person and work of Jesus Christ cannot be reconciled.

They may all be false, but they cannot all be true.

It’s called the law of non-contradiction...it goes back to Aristotle:
If proposition A is true, that is, if it conforms to reality - then proposition B, making a contrary claim, cannot be true as well.

We can trace our debased definition of “tolerance” back to French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau who rejected any distinction between “civil” and “theological intolerance.” Rousseau did not believe that people can “live at peace with those they regard as damned.” He saw Christian truth claims as being intolerant and a prelude to civil strife. Specifically, he wrote, anyone who dared to say “no salvation outside the church” should be driven out of society - precisely what is happening.

Have we been so taken in by our own culture that we have abandoned truth? Christians need to be grounded in our basic beliefs, or we will, indeed, be swept up in the tides of surging relativism.
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